Feeding

At this time of the year few flowers may be seen in the reserve. One of them is the blue anise sage Salvia guaranitica, a native plant. and the hummingbird does not miss out the chance

Nest/Active nest

Fight/Chase

The silk floss tree Ceiba speciosa at the Viamonte Access is loaded with flowers. Joy to our eyes and a nutritious food source for the hummingbirds. There were a gilded sapphire (bronze colour) and a female glittering-bellied emerald (with grayish underparts), some time later a male showed up, too. The gilded sapphire defended from the competitors what it considered its tree. As the sapphire identified an intruder it pounced on it to drive it away. The intruder reacted by escaping and the sapphire escorted it to make sure it left the grounds. But success was temporary since the emerald was back in no time and the sequence was repeated. When the male glittering-bellied gmerald showed up things got worse for the sapphire, now there were two intruders to be expelled from its territory. The movement of hummingbirds is so fast that only these scenes could be rescued. Among them, two chases

Feeding

Lapping up at a cock spur tree